Final Cut Studio 3 works on PowerPC, despite what Apple say.

[Billy Jim]

FCS on g5 with Pacifist

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I know immediately that people are going to say "Duhh look at the System Requirements, it says it needs an 'Intel Processor' "

But having just purchased FCS3 for my Intel machine, I discovered according to the 'Get Info' tab, Final Cut 7 and all the other FCS3 apps are 'Universal'.

Screenshot here:

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I loaded up FCP using 'Rosetta' and it said that FCP7 requires a G5 processor, and you have a G4. Don't know why it said that, but it seems to suggest FCP7 will work on a G5.

Again screenshot here:

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The Info PList file in FCP7 which most people use to hack FCP to work on machines that don't meet requirements by default has the G4 500mhz as a minimum processor.

Unfortunately i don't have any PowerPC machines to hand to test whether a PowerPC will actually load the app.

Does anyone actually know for sure?

I successfully installed FCS 3 with Pacifist but the Templates folder for Motion did not install within the program. The folder was separate and seems complete. Do you know how (or where) that folder belongs?

 

[Jethryn Freyman]

Hey Guys
Good job on this work around! I was hoping you could help me figure out which line to of text to edit for a duel 1.8 G5?

At first FCP wouldn't open because I didn't meet the system requirements, however I tossed out

Contents/resources/MRCheckPro.bundle/MacOS/MRCheckPro

and everything started up with no problems!

Just need help finding the correct line to edit.

Once again, nice work!

Hate to bump ancient threads, but this worked for me. Editing the strings did not work, so I left that file intact and simply trashed the MRCheckPro UNIX executable. FCP7 launches fine on a 2x 1.8GHz G5 with 10.5.8.

I also needed to install Pro Application RunTime 5.1 to prevent FCP from crashing on launch. Download that from Apple's downloads site.

 

[macca1980]

I figured out a new workaround to install with the original installer.
I opened the file "FinalCutStudio.dist" which is located on the Install DVD:
Installer/FinalCutStudio.mpkg/Contents/
I edited this file with Xcode.app (I have Apple Developer Tools installed)
and just removed the lines where it says Intel..., saved and burned a new Install DVD.
Now there's no error message anymore and you can use the installer as supposed!
Works perfectly and now I don't have to reenter my Serial everytime I restart

Exactly what code did you remove. Everytime I remove any code it gives me a javascript error